Hues, Vol. 1
1. intro(no title yet)
2. all saints day (temporary title, started recording Nov. 1)
3. 4am
4. violet (will probably be renamed)
5. acadia (will probably be renamed)
6. enemy

1.

As for release date, it's still pretty up in the air. I'm looking at an early 2009 release date, probably in the 1st quarter.

I was about to make a new post detailing my "plans" for the upcoming months, where I stand with the new album, and where I want to be in a few months. Then I suddenly realized, that I never succeed when I plan ahead. So instead, I'll talk about what I have accomplished, which is not much.

1. I'm nearly back to step 1, and I'm starting to take a more analytical approach, instead of just opening up Live and shooting off random snippets that I'll probably never use.

2. I have written out short outlines of what I want certain sounds to sound or feel like on the upcoming record. Setting these foundations I believe will allow me to better grow and expand my ideas, it gives me something to work towards. I can say, "Hey myself, I think I'm going to work on Song A today", and I'll say "Okay me." And then they'll come to take me away HAHA! Annnyway, some of the outlines are below:

a. A mellow piano based track, very minimalistic.
b. A heavier rock based song
c. A funky, very electronic song with guitar. Reminiscent of some IAMX stuff.
d. A very drum and bass driven song.
e. A new intro, very epic(of course), will attempt to mesh it right into track 2 on the cd for a nice effect.
f. Reworking of Frozen.
g. Reworking of Enemy (rerecording the guitar)
h. Reworking of Violet (not sure any of you have ever heard this one, very hip-hop-ish, very fucking cool. It even gets thumbs up from my metal friends.)

ta ta for now

As you can see, I've got some things on my plate at the moment. I'm going to begin work on the Losing My Religion cover this week. After that will be the Depeche Mode cover. While I'm working on those I'm sure I'll be messing with my latest song. It only says "better balls" because that is the name of the file(don't ask). I am also working on drums and programming for a Synthetic Solace track, called "the tide". More on this stuff soon.

Sometimes it can feel good to get away from the studio. It's unfortunate that ideas will happen at these times. I do have a laptop, loaded up with my music software, but without a nice small portable controller, I don't have much desire to get the ideas down. The QWERTY keyboard MIDI driver is a neat idea, but too much of a pain to work with. But now it looks like Korg has answered my prayers:



The only one that I feel that I'll really need is the nanoKEY (the keyboard one, duh). If I'm on my laptop somewhere and need to get some drums down, the keyboard will work just fine for that, and no need to mess with the nanoKONTROL either(the mixer looking one). From what I hear, these are going to be reasonably priced as well. I saw some European prices on some other site, all around £49, which puts it at around $96 here now, at the current exchange rate...wow that's really sad. Still though I think it's worth it.

i'm getting a little sick of getting into a rut every so often when it comes to writing music. it really happens far too often, and takes far too long to get out of. Sometimes the constant weeding through samples, presets, synths to use in a song can take precedence, and can wear you out rather quickly.

so my experiment for today, is to start a new song. i'm going to leave my VSTs either all at their default setting, or do the entire song in piano tracks. For drums, just going to pick the first samples I see and get to work on concentrating on patterns.

i'm fighting to split apart the two parts of the musical process that have been going head to head in my...head. composition. then production.

we'll see how that goes.

"when the sky begins to fall"

we've been digging the hole
for far too many years
and it'll be time to say goodbye
when we all just disappear

C:
so is this how it ends
doesn't really matter at all
i'll be right beside you
when the sky begins to fall

the world grows silent
and time slows to a crawl
i'll be right beside you
when the sky begins to fall

what have we done
it's only begun

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"reflection"

1st chorus:
the reflections that you see
are far too faded for me
i'm fighting to break free
you're not what I'll ever be

2nd chorus:
the reflections that you see
are far too faded for me
i'm fighting to break free
you're not what I'll ever fucking be
it's become so hard to believe
the reality that we perceive
oh how much you've been deceived
I think it's time for you to leave

is it just me?

now, I've not been to many "industrial" shows. pretty much Nails and 51 Peg and that's it. but as it seems, when you went to a show for industrial music, it really wasn't all that dissimilar from a rock 'n roll show. you had guitars(albeit likely heavily distorted), on occasion you had a real drummer, and most importantly, you had that same energy.

nowadays, it seems like fans in the "industrial scene*(vomit)" are only interested in "club nights" and seeing the frontman of one of today's terrible "industrial" acts play DJ for a couple hours instead of actually playing music. now it may be argued that energy on a dance floor could rival that of a rock or metal show. Probably true, but it's a different kind of energy. It's not even close to the same.

maybe those of us that are not trying to pander to this crowd should try to garner fans that aren't so diluted. you want to dance? go to a rave. when I start performing all I want from people is to just chill out and enjoy the show, have some drinks, and have a good time.


*I really hate this fucking word.

p.s. I am now 1/4 century old.